WordPress.com Users Can Now Register .CO Domain Names
We’re excited to announce the addition of .CO as a new top-level domain on WordPress.com. If you’re interested in buying a custom domain name for a new or existing site, you can now choose and register...
View ArticleBe Part of the Official Annual WordPress Conference from Anywhere in the World!
WordCamp San Francisco is three days away. Think you’re out of luck because you’re nowhere near California, or didn’t buy a ticket before they sold out? Think again! Join the live stream, and attend...
View ArticleFive Minutes with Dave Martin
Every once in a while, we get to sit down with an Automattician to help you get to know the people who work behind the scenes here. These are the people who build new features, keep Automattic running,...
View ArticleNew Theme: Magnate Express
Magnate Express: Narrow View What better way to celebrate the excitement of WordCamp San Francisco this week than with a premium theme launch! Our latest, from WooThemes, is called Magnate Express, a...
View ArticleBlogger Profile: Ex-Expat Author Jack Scott
For insight on expat life mixed with a generous dose of British wit, few bloggers can match Jack Scott, the author whose blog, Perking the Pansies, led to a publishing contract and a busy writing...
View ArticlePublish, Promote, Repeat: Dashboard Tools to Share Your Stuff with the World
You’ve worked hard all day drafting a post, then click Publish to send it out into the world. Then, you crash for the night. You’ve earned it, right? You wake up in the morning, excited to look in...
View ArticleOne Theme, Three Ways: Customizing iTheme2
iTheme2 was originally conceived as a tech blog theme, paying homage to the sleek design of Apple websites. The three blogs we showcase here are proof of its remarkable versatility: not one of them...
View ArticleYou Are Now Less Dumb: Blogger David McRaney on Scoring the Second Book Deal
David McRaney’s Blog, You Are Not So Smart, led to a book of the same name, published in October 2011 — a book that became a bestseller in 13 languages (we profiled him here when the book was first...
View ArticleNew Themes: Publisher and Zoren
What better way to kick off August than with two new themes? Today we have both a premium theme and a free theme for your viewing pleasure, Publisher and Zoren. Publisher is the first premium theme on...
View ArticleDigging In the Dashboard: Three Features to Discover
Features abound in the WordPress.com dashboard. When you first got started at WordPress.com, you likely identified a handful of tools that you used every time you posted and then ignored the rest. But...
View ArticleWordPress.com by the Numbers: The July 2013 Hot List
When you hit “Publish” and send your work out into the world, do you stop to think about the larger ecosystem in which your blog is embedded? After all, one of the things that makes a blog a blog and...
View ArticleShare Readmill Highlights to Your WordPress Site
At WordPress.com, we love to read. We’re delighted to announce that our partner Readmill has implemented sharing to WordPress in the latest version of their iOS app, already available in the App Store....
View ArticleNew Theme: Isca
Hello there! Another Thursday has arrived and all the themers down in Themeville are excited to present the latest addition to the wonderful world of themes here on WordPress.com. Isca is the third...
View ArticleNew for Publicize: Share Your Path Moments
Our Publicize feature, which we recently highlighted, is a quick, simple way to build your readership and share your latest content automatically on other social networks, including Facebook, Twitter,...
View ArticleIntroducing WordPress.com Connect
Today, we’re announcing a new feature for developers called WordPress.com Connect, a secure and easy way for millions of WordPress.com users to log in to your website or app. For WordPress.com users...
View ArticleCreate Presentations Easily on WordPress.com with Shortcodes
On WordPress.com, you can use a number of shortcodes to embed features and create objects with little effort, and make your site look just the way you want. We’re excited to announce new shortcodes you...
View ArticleNew Theme: Fontfolio
Happy Theme Thursday, all! Today I’m excited to share our latest free theme, Fontfolio. Fontfolio is a clean, grid-style portfolio theme originally designed by Marios Lublinski. It includes bold...
View ArticleStats Wrangling III: Top Posts and Pages
We did the 36,000-foot, airplane-over-the-Grand-Canyon view of your stats page, and last month, we walked up to the lip of the Canyon and peered down at the days, weeks, and months views. Today — if I...
View ArticleOne Theme, Three Ways: Customizing Coraline
There are more than 200 themes to choose from in the Theme Showcase: themes with sleek magazine-style front pages (like Oxygen and Watson), static business and profile sites (like Forefront and...
View ArticleGet the Most Out of Widgets: All Kinds of Images
Images are one of the simplest ways to inject personality into your blog. No matter what theme you’re using, you can add life with images — insert them into posts and pages, use them for headers and...
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